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...hard to believe after one of the bloodiest weeks of the current Israeli-Palestinian clashes, but both Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat appear to be moving to calm the situation. The decision by Israel's security cabinet Thursday to refrain from another high-profile military retaliation to Wednesday's car bomb that killed two people in northern Israel is a sign that Israel's prime minister has recognized the danger in trying to shoot his way out of a crisis...
...seven weeks as the Israelis have deployed everything from rubber-coated bullets to tank artillery and air-to-surface missiles against Palestinian militants. But the fact remains that the Israeli military is capable of a far higher degree of violence than it has unleashed thus far, and Prime Minister Ehud Barak's government is under increasing domestic pressure to up the ante. Israel has once again cordoned off Palestinian towns throughout the West Bank and Gaza, and cabinet ministers and military officials suggested harsher responses were now under consideration...
...President Clinton gesticulates in vain to get Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak back on a path to peace, the specter of Lebanon is beginning to loom over the West Bank and Gaza. Four Israelis and two Palestinians were killed in fierce clashes Monday, in a new escalation of violence that has followed Israel's decision last week to begin assassinating Fatah militia leaders it believes are orchestrating attacks against Israelis. Last Thursday's helicopter rocket attack on a local militia leader in Bethlehem reminded many Israeli commentators of their army?s tactics in Lebanon, and the association is an uncomfortable...
...commentary "The Barak Paradox," Charles Krauthammer says the outbreak of violence in the Middle East is proof that the "dovish" approach advocated by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's government is painfully misguided [ESSAY, Oct. 23]. But does Krauthammer truly believe that seven years of Israeli peace initiatives and negotiations with, and concessions to, the Palestinians should be enough time and effort to turn the tide on centuries-old religious and ethnic enmity? And even if he believes that, how can he suggest that Barak give up doing what is right in exchange for the military imposition of a peace...
Krauthammer's comparison of Ehud Barak with Neville Chamberlain, implicitly equating Arafat and the Palestinians with Hitler and Nazi Germany, was ludicrous. Were British forces occupying Germany at the time of Chamberlain's negotiations? Was Hitler the leader of fighters armed primarily with rocks, bottles and handguns? The two situations are not parallel in the least. The Palestinians are frustrated with the ongoing occupation. They have been given only symbolic aspects of statehood. JEFFREY DAVIS Durham...